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are no longer useful for fishing, would answer the 
purpose very well, and I have no doubt may he 
procured at a moderate expense from any of the 
ports where fishing is carried on.* 
The best methods I know of for protecting 
the fruit on standard trees is to stuff a sparrow or 
moor hawk. Place it as prominent as possible, 
and in a manner as though it were living in the 
midst of the tree. The figure of a man, or a 
large dead bird, and cats, ai’e generally supposed 
to be of service, fixed in the tree. A sort of 
rattle which produces a noise similar to that which 
watchmen use, is used in some places. The sound 
is produced by the wind turning round sails in 
miniature, like those employed to work the ma- 
chinery for grinding corn, commonly called wind- 
mills. This, I have no doubt, proves alarming 
to the birds. 
PEACH AND NECTARINE. 
Red Spider. — A species of Red Spider, 
(Acarus Holosoriccus) visits these ti-ees before the 
least vestige of the foliage appears. At this time 
it is of a very small size, quite red. When it 
hecomes full grown it is changed to a red brown 
colour, much of an oval shape, except the head 
part, which is a little more obtuse than the reverse 
end, and the whole body is flat, furnished with six 
